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OK,
Following an interesting discussion earlier this evening I thought it might be fun to see just how few keystrokes you would need to calculate successive terms of the Fibonacci Sequence, preferably without using any storage registers...
I doubt it I have the best solution but thought the answer I came up with demonstrated really nicely why I like my old RPN calculator so much and that it would be interesting so see what other people came up with.
Start with a one in 'x' - all other registers zero.
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I'm assuming this is a keystroke procedure only (not a program).
In that case, I think it's just
Enter
Enter
Roll Up
+
Then repeat, ad infinitum.
Edit: I failed to observe initially that there is no "roll up" key on most machines, including the 12C. I was surprised to realize that this also won't work on a 42S, where the keyboard up-arrow is actually BST. However, it does work on my daily calc, the 17BII, because the up-arrow key performs a RollUp. Unfortunately it is only a keystroke solution, not a program. Obviously this is not intended for RPL machines, as it depends on a revolving 4-level stack.
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Very close in approach to my 'preferred' solution and it doesn't even rely on 'Last x', but since I was using an HP33C I couldn't use Roll Up...
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On an RPL machine (three command, ? keystroked):
SWAP OVER +
On a 42 (five keystrokes, two commands):
x<>y RCL+ ST Y
Still thinking about other models....
In the 20b scientific firmware there is a generalised Fibonacci function :-)
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On a 42 (five keystrokes, two commands):
x<>y RCL+ ST Y
One command:
RCL+ ST L
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Nice!
I'd come up with an alternating sequence of:
STO+ ST Y
STO+ ST X
But that isn't nearly as nice.
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I recently worked on this so I could try and show off the new 7 line program display mode of the 42s/Free42 in iTunes. I came up with:
01 LBL "Fibonac"
02 1
03 STO ST L
04 LBL 00
05 STOP
06 RCL+ ST L
07 GTO 00
It's not perfect because it creates the sequence 1,2,3,... instead of 1,1,2,...
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Try:
01 LBL "Fibonac"
02 0
03 STO ST L
04 1
05 LBL 00
06 STOP
07 RCL+ ST L
08 GTO 00
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Yea, that's better, but I was trying to get it to fit in 7 lines.
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Replace the "0 STO ST L" with CLSTK and you get to 7 steps :-)
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How about:
0
E^X
LBL 00
STOP
RCL+ ST L
GTO 00
Initialization isn't pretty, but it's as non destructive as you can get, and it begins the sequence correctly.
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Another 3 command RPL:
DUP ROT +
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Hi, all;
Amongst many others, Valentim would be one of the guys to add some valuable comments to this thread...
Cheers.
Luiz (Brazil)
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Hi
My program for the HP-41 of the Fibonacci sequence is:
01 0
02 1
03 LBL 00
04 X<>Y
05 ST+ Y
06 PSE
07 GTO 00
08 .END.
The advantages are that all terms are shown and is very efficient.
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OK, a program on our old friend, the 12c, using no registers and 7 steps:
1
enter
+
pse
lastx
x<-->y
goto 03
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Don- Nice work.. I love how you program the Finance Calcs!!!
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Hi Don,
Too late for the show, anyway an alternative 12c program that produces 0,1,1,2,3,... if we don't mind clearing some registers:
01- CLEAR SIGMA
02- 1
03- x<>y
04- PSE
05- +
06- LST x
07- GTO 03
Regards,
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Actually this exactly key sequence that I first came up with on my HP33C.
Each sucessive iteration takes just four steps/key strokes which I thought was quite efficent, but a little cumbersome to key in...
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On a TI A.O.S. machine like the TI-59 start with 1 in the t register and 1 in the display. Then press x<>t + and see each successive term in the display after each + .
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LASTx
x<>y
+
That's four keystrokes on most RPN machines. On a line-addressed machine like the HP-25, the program becomes
01 LASTx
02 x<>y
03 +
04 PAUSE
05 GTO 01
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After thinking about it for a little bit on my HP33C I came up with
Enter, Enter, Rdn, Rdn, +
Admittedly not the absolutly the shortest number of keystrokes but it has a certain appeal...
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I like it. Has a nice rhythm to it.
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In an earlier submission I gave a very short keyboard sequence for finding the series on an A.O.S. machine. The idea wasn't mine. I had seen it somewhere but couldn't locate it. Now I have found the original reference which is from V5N4/5P16 of TI PPC Notes:
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SHORTEST USEFUL ROUTINE - Samuel G. Allen sends me the shortest do-something-useful routine I have seen so far: 000: X<>T + PRT RST . With the t-register clear and 1 in the display, press RST R/S and it will print a listing of the Fibonacci numbers. ...
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If we can alter the initial stack conditions, it can be done in one step.
Set up the stack:
5
sqrt
1
+
2
/
ENTER
ENTER
FIX 0
5
sqrt
1/x
You'll need an additional ENTER if the FIX 0 doesn't enable stack lift.
After that, press * (multiply) to see 1. Press * again to see 1. Keep going to see 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc.
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Not sure that qualifies as the shortest but it is interesting and does show just how useful the stack can be...
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Impressive. Most impressive. You may be an HP Jedi yet.
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...it is interesting and does show just how useful the stack can be...
The stack is really useful: quite by accident (as almost everything I discover) I found it can be used to solve the equation
x
----- = k , k > e
ln(x)
Start by filling the stack with k then iterate 'ln *' until the answer on the display converges (somewhat slowly if k is close to e) to the second real solution.
On my HP-45:
pi
ex
ENTER
ENTER
ENTER
ln * (16 times)
-> 1.084423455e02
As a comparison the HP-33s solver gives 108.442345473 (initial guess = 100). Can a non-programmable algebraic calculator do this? :-)
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Gerson:
You asked:
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Can a non-programmable algebraic calculator do this? :-)
The answer is yes. Try this on a TI-30:
pi
INV ln
STO
then do
ln x RCL =
After 16 iterations you will see 108.44235 in the display with 108.44234529 in the display register.
I suspect that this will work with any algebraic which has a memory. It works on my Sharp EL-501W where it yields 108.4423436 after twelve iterations.
Palmer
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Quote:
You asked:
Quote:
Can a non-programmable algebraic calculator do this? :-)
The answer is yes.
Thanks! Next time I'll try to solve the problem on an algebraic calculator before asking :-)
By the way, long ago, for a while, I had a TI-51-III and a TI-59. Too bad the first got broken (my fault) and the latter was stolen...
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